Re: Re: Using "localhost" is taking me to localhost.com!!! why?
| From: | Glenn Sieb | Date: | Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:01:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Using "localhost" is taking me to localhost.com!!! why? | ||
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Hey Wm,
Nothing prevents you from running a webserver on your local host (unless of course you're on a corporate network where it's generally pooh-poohed by the AoH (Admins on High). Lots of developers run local webservers to check their work.
And, since localhost refers to 127.0.0.1 or the local loopback address, http://localhost is a perfectly valid URL if one is running a webserver and trying to connect to that webserver from the same machine it's running on. :)
Glenn
On 10:52 AM 8/28/2002 -0700, Wm wrote:
shouldn't that just be /localhost/ rather than http://....? Seems like the "http://" part would be telling it to look for an actual website, which would default to a .com address...--- Glenn E. Sieb System Administrator Lumeta Corporation +1 732 357-3514 (V) +1 732 564-0731 (Fax)